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Sebb commented on CSV-88:
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bq. PRISTINE is useless as a base format because all properties have to be
defined.
No, it's not useless; that's why it was created as empty.
The PRISTINE format provides a base that is untainted by existing settings,
which is why it works well for creating the pre-defined public formats.
The only setting that is absolutely required is the delimiter, which is why I
suggested providing a ctor which takes the delimiter as its only parameter.
As I see it, there are the following possibilities for creating a new basic
format using : as the delimiter.
{code}
fmt1 = new CSVFormat(':');
fmt2 = new CSVFormat().withDelimiter(':');
fmt3 = CSVFormat.PRISTINE.withDelimiter(':');
fmt4 = CSVFormat.newInstance(':');
fmt5 = CSVFormat.newInstance().withDelimiter(':');
{code}
Obviously the constant name PRISTINE can be changed, or the newInstance()
method could be renamed.
> Not possible to create a CSVFormat from scratch
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>
> Key: CSV-88
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CSV-88
> Project: Commons CSV
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Sebb
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> It's not possible to create a CSVFormat except by modifying an existing
> format.
> Could either make the PRISTINE format public, or provide a constructor with a
> single parameter (the delimiter).
> Could provide a no-args ctor instead, but there seems little point in that.
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